Means for raising and lowering curtain-poles.



PATENTED AUG. 28, 1906.

D. ST. G. MAGGREGOR.

MEANS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING CURTAIN POLE S.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.18, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUNCAN ST. CLAIR MACGREGOR, OF INVERCARGILL, NEW ZEALAND.

MEANS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING OURTAlN-POLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Aug. 28', 1906.

T0 .tZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DUNCAN ST. CLAIR MAoeREeoR, a subject of His Majestythe King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Invercargill, in theprovincial district of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Raising andLowering Curtain-Poles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means employed for raising and lowering polescarrying the curtains of windows and the like.

According hereto I employ a headboard, which overhangs the toparchitrave and which for the purpose of securing it in position may havea right-angle bracket-board.

By manipulating the raising and lowering cords 7 and 10 the pole may beraised out of the brackets, and then by manipulating the Y third orguide cord 13 the pole may be drawn to a position in front of thebrackets, so that when the pole is lowered into any desired position forthe purpose of removing and replacing curtains or the like which may becarried upon the pole the said pole will not come into contact with thebrackets.

A third or guide cord leads over guide-pub leys and is connected at itsend to near the middle of the pole, The position of this cord is suchthat when it is pulled it tends to draw the pole away from the bracketsreferred to.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 an enlarged sectional part sideelevation.

A headboard in two parts 1 and 2 is secured above the window by screwsor other usual means.

The brackets 4 and 5, which are of usual construction and designed tocarry the pole 6, are screwed to the part 2 of the headboard.

i I i l i i The cord 7 is led over guide-sheavesS and 9, revolublymounted in holes cut in the headboard and is secured to the pole in anyconvenient manner.

The cord 10 is led over the guide-sheave 11, revolubly mounted in a hole12 in the hepdboard, and its end is also secured to the po e.

The third cord 13 is led over the guidesheaves 14 and 15, which arerespectively mounted in holes 16 and 17 in the headboard, and its end issecured to approximately the middle of the pole.

By manipulating-the raising and lowering cords 7 and 10, respectively,and the third or guide cord 13 the pole may be raised into the bracketsand lifted out therefrom and lowered into any desired position for thepurpose like which may be carried upon said pole.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

For the purpose indicated, in combination, a curtain-pole, a headboard,brackets in which said pole is supported below the headboard, cordsconnected to each end of said pole and passing over revolubly-mountedpulleys one upon each side of the window in connection with which saidpole is employed, a third or guide cord passing over a pulley near oneside of the window and. over another pulley at the middle of theheadboard and forwardly of the pole, one end of which guidecord issecured near the middle of said pole, substantially as specified andillustrated.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two witnesses.

DUNCAN ST. CLAIR MACGREGOR.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS ARTHUR JoYNT, JOHN FREDERICK LILLICRAP.

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